ANTA02H3 Chapter : week 8 reading.docx
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To be an azawagh arab woman, you must have a fattened body type and maintain it throughout life. Bodies symbolize like our words and make them socially meaningful with beautification (fattening) any meanings attached make them seem natural and grounded. Culture and bodies correlated and hold meaning in society. Girls at age 6 go from learning (koran) through language to learning through body, ingesting principles and values of culture to be represented and reproduced for the whole society. Male fetus take form quicker than female in womb = body differences from birth, but girls outside the womb mature quicker than boys. Women use to refer as themselves as all those who are cut (penis), men in playful talk represented their penis with a tightened upright forearm. Women cut open and vulnerable , men strong, upright and whole. Men hold things in bodies women are in danger of losing them (pg. 138 - hawa and adama)
